Il est marié avec Lena Liefting.
Ils se sont mariés le 3 mai 1867 à Numansdorp , il avait 27 ans.Les sources 1, 2
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Govert and Lena (Liefting) Mastbergen with their children Pleuntje Adriana (born 1868) and Teunis (b. 1872) were the first of the Mastbergen clan to come to America.
The 1870s and 1880s were certainly rough for the Mastbergens given the four children they had to bury at Numansdorp, Netherlands - where the couple was from. There was Kornelis (Nov. 24, 1869 - Feb. 23, 1870), Kornelis (June 29, 1875 - Aug. 11, 1875), Ingetje Kornelia (March 27, 1880 - Sept. 21, 1888) and Levenloos Kind van Govert (stillborn - July 27, 1881).
One can only sympathize with the grief the couple must have shared. It is bad enough to bury one child - but four? Can only guess that this may have been one of the major driving forces for their emigration to America. A new place to heal sorrowful memories.
Govert & Lena emigrated in 1889 sailing from Antwerp, Belgium to New York on the Noordland arriving on the 23rd of February.
The Noordland was part of the Red Star Line, built in 1883 at Birkenhead by Laird Bros. The ship weighed 5,129 tons and was 400' long by 47' at its widest point. It had 4 masts and 1 funnel. It's maiden voyage was on March 29, 1884. After numerous journeys between Antwerp and New York, the ship was scrapped in 1908.
The 1910 Federal Census states that Govert at age 70 worked as a common laborer sandpapering furniture. Sadly, both Govert and Lena are buried in unmarked graves at the Fairplains Cemetery. They are buried in section X row 31 - adjacent Lena's parents (the Dykemas). The caretaker states that they either never had stones or that they were vandalized/stolen. Unfortunately most of the graves in that section are lacking stones.